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the continent. His authority feems to be 
wocontrolled, and however much we may 
deplore the faét, it muft be admitted that 
in molt cafes he has ufed that authority 
towards the nations that he has jubdued 
with a certain degree of moderation. 
The treaties which have been laid be- 
fore Parliament, explaining the original 
plans of the combined powers are too long 
to be inferted in our Mifcellany; we hall 
however tran{cribe the main articles, whieh 
were figned in the month of ie 1805, 
In thefe it will be feen that the high con- 
tracting powers pledged themfelves not to 
make’ peace with the common enemy, 
without the confent of ail the powers en- 
gaged in the league; whereas Auttria, 
the principal of thefe powers, has been 
obliged to accept of peace on any terms, 
and the Reffians have retired from the 
fcene of action by a route prefcribed by 
the victorious emperor. It was agreed 
that Hanover was to be evacuated: that 
jovereignty is now by leave of Bonaparte 
in pofleffion of Pruflia, on whom much of 
Britith weaith bas been lavifhed as an ally. 
Ic was refolved that the independence of 
Holland and Swifferland fhould be efta- 
blifhed ; but nothing has been done in 
defence of either. Security was to be 
given tu the kingdom of Naples; inftead 
of which, the haughty ‘Napoleon decrees 
that **the Neapolitan dynafly bas ceased 
to reign:—its ex:itence. is incompatible 
with the repofe of Europe, and the ho- 
nour of our crown,” 
the eftablifhment of a new order of things 
in Europe, which has completely mocked 
the hopes of the ailied powers, and which 
has piven to France a degree of authority 
and oonfequence which even the Emperor 
himfelf could not have anticipated, and 
which appears to have annihilated every 
principle upon which the baiance of Eu. 
ropean power was founded. 
Treaty of Concert betcveen bis Majefy and the 
' Emperor of all the Ruffias, figned at St. Pe- 
tirfourg, tke 11th of April, 1805. 
Articte I, Asthe ftate of fuftering in 
which Europe is placed, demands fpeedy re- 
medy, their Majefties the King of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 
land, and the Emperor of all the Ruffias, 
have mutually agreed to confult upon the 
Means of putting a ftop thereto, without 
waiting for farther encroachments on the 
part of the French government. ‘They have 
agreed in confequence to employ the moft 
fpeedy and the moft efficacious means to form 
a general League of the States of Europe, 
and to engage them to accede to the prefent 
concert; and in order to accomplish the end 
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State of Public Affairs in February, 1806. 
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propofed, to colleét together a force, which 
independently of the fuccours furnithed by 
his Britannic Majefty, may amount to five 
hundred thoufand effective men 3 and toem- 
pley the fame energy, in order either to in- 
duce or compel the French Government to 
agree to the re-eftablifhment of peace, and 
the equilibrium of Europe. — 
Ii. The obje@ of this league will’ be to 
carry into effect what is propofed by the pre- 
fent concert, namely: 
a. The evacuation of the country of Han- 
over, and the North of Germany. 
b. The ettablifhment of the independence of 
the Republics of Holland and Swifferland. 
The re-eftablifhment of the King of 
Sardinia in Piedmont, with as large an aug- 
mentation of territory as circumftances will 
permit. 
d. The future fecurity of the kingdom of 
Naples, and the complete evacuation of italy 
the ifland of Elba included, by the Riencis 
Adin 
The eftablithment of an order of things 
in Buveus) which may efe€tually guarantee 
the fecurity and independence of the different 
ftates, and prefent a folid barrier ine fu- 
ture ufurpations. 
Ill. His Britannic Majefty, in order to 
concur efficacioufly on his fice to the happy 
effects ef the prefent concert, engages to 
contribute to the common efforts, by em- 
ploying his forces both by fea and land, ag 
well as his veffels adapted for tranfporting 
troops, in fuch manner as fhall be determined 
upon in the general plan of operations. His 
Majefty will moreover affift the different 
powers who fhall accede thereto by fubfidies, 
the amount of which fhall correfpond to the 
ref{pective forces which fhall be employed 5 
and in order that the faid pecuniary fuccovis 
may be proportioned in the manner moft con= 
ducive to the general good, and to affift the 
_powers in proportion to the exertions they 
may make, to contribute to the common fuc- 
ceis, it is agreed, that thefe fubfidies, (bear- 
ing particular arrangements) fhall be fur- 
nifhed in the proportion of one million two 
hundred and fifty thoufand pounds fterling, 
for each hundred thoufand men of regular 
troops, and fo in proportion for a greater or 
fmaller number, payable according to the 
conditions hereafter fpecified. 
IV.. The faid fubfidies fhall be pa ‘ie 
by inftalments, from month to month, in 
proportionto the forces which each power 
fhail employ in purfuance of its engagements, 
to'combat the common enemy. 
It was alfo agreed that, in the event of a 
league being formed, peace fhould not be 
made with France but by the common con- 
fent of all the powers who fhali become par- 
ties in the faid League ; and alfo that the 
Continental Powers fhall not recal their 
forces before the peace; moreover, his Bri- 
tannic Maj-fty engages to continue the pay- 
meiit 
